new sysinstall

Robert Garrett rg70 at sbcglobal.net
Sun Aug 31 04:19:26 PDT 2003


Matthew Dillon wrote:

> 
> :Something small like thttpd would work as a plain server.  Or would
> :Apache
> :module support be useful in  the future?
> :
> :In any case, this sounds darn good to my uneducated ear.
> 
>     Apache is fairly small, a complete install of Apache2 is less then 4MB
>     I
>     think.  We should probably just use Apache2.
> 
>     PHP5 looks very cool but it does depend on Python and a number of
>     other
>     things, so it takes a lot of CD space.  Maybe we could start with
>     PHP4,
>     which is also only around 4MB installed.  PHP5 could be an upgrade
>     path for us down the line.
> 
>     The more I research this option, the more I like it.  Small, compact,
>     easy to run, portable, multiple display options, remote install
>     capability... it seems to take care of all the issues.
> 
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
O.K, people are finally beginning to see where I was going. Though
actually using apache I didn't think anybody would buy ..


Robert Garrett





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